Paul De Sa, partner at McKinsey & Co., will be the chief of the office. His resume includes Oxford, MIT and Harvard.

Chief economist will be Jonathan Baker (Stanford and Harvard), a law professor at American University and former director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Chief Economist Michelle Connolly is exiting to return to the economics department at Duke.

Zachary Katz (Yale) has been named deputy chief. He was most recently special counsel to the president in White House counsel's office.